Placing the patient in the center of treatment paradigm, Integrative Medicine is an approach to treat the entire patient including: physical, mental, emotional, social, lifestyle and potential environmental factors that influence a patient’s health. Every patient receives a focused and specialized plan that promotes optimum health utilizing a range of actions from an array of healing disciplines. Some of the Key Principles of Integrative Medicine include:

• The patient and practitioner are partners in the healing process.
• Good medicine is based in good science. It is inquiry driven and open to new discoveries.
• All factors that influence health, wellness and disease are taken into consideration, including body, mind, spirit and community.
• Appropriate use of both conventional and alternative methods facilitates the body's innate healing response.
• Providers use multiple healing sciences to facilitate the body’s innate healing response.
• Effective interventions that are natural and less invasive are used whenever possible.
• Good medicine is based in good science. It is inquiry driven and open to new paradigms.
• Alongside the concept of treatment, the broader concepts of health promotion and the prevention of illness are paramount.
• The care is personalized to best address the individual’s unique conditions, needs and circumstances.
• Practitioners of integrative medicine exemplify its principles and commit themselves to self-exploration and self-development.